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Lutz Edzard (ed.), Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities

Aethiopica, 2014
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Alessandro Bausi
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An Algorithm For Building Language Superfamilies Using Swadesh Lists [PDF]

, 2020
The main contributions of this thesis are the following: i. Developing an algorithm to generate language families and superfamilies given for each input language a Swadesh list represented using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) notation. ii. The
Mutabazi, Bill
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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology

Folia Orientalia
The contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas

Folia Orientalia
The Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021
The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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Aspects of Northern Mao Phonology

Linguistic Discovery, 2009
In general terms, the phonology of Omotic languages has received little attention. This paper presents core phonological properties of on Omotic language, Norther Mao.
Michael Ahland
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THE ARABIC NUMERALS AS A CATEGORY OF THE CERTAIN QUANTITY

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020
Purpose. The paper deals with the lexical and grammatical analysis of numeral in Arabic (the Afroasiatic language family). The cardinal, ordinal and fractional numerals are under investigation. Numerals, expressing the exact number, are considered in the
Nailya Gabdelkhamitovna Mingazova
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The Benue-Gongola-Chad Basin : zone of ethnic and linguistic compression [PDF]

, 2006
We wish to emphasize the fact that so far our investigations have concentrated on documenting large bodies of data covering a number of linguistic units in an area which - as we hope to have demonstrated - displays a highly complex linguistic and ethnic ...
Jungraithmayr, H., Leger, R.
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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]

, 2016
version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Review: Encyclopedia of linguistics [PDF]

, 2005
The two volumes of this new encyclopedia contain over five hundred self-contained essays, each between 1000 and 3000 words, covering a very wide range of topics.
Barnard, Roger
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